Thursday, November 19, 2009

Okay, so I haven't been around much... Been working two jobs, plus my freelance work... And my computer DIED about a month ago, just got it up and running once again.. So I'll try to blog more, but I'm the laziest blogger in history.

Monday, June 29, 2009

So, I'm alive, i have paintings and I've been dabbling in plushies. I've started my new job.. Sorta.. I hope they give me more hours, my poor credit card hates me right now...

So, here's som recent work, all is available for sale at my Etsy store, both original and prints as well as the plushies! I also have a HUGE (okay, sorta huge) amount of ACEO collector cards, both original and prints for sale at my Etsy store. All for under $17.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

View at own risk, blood and grossness. This means you do not click this link KS. Yes, you. GROSS

Yeah, i did that while washing a glass that broke in my hand. i spent over 2 hrs in the clinic today only to find out that i waited too long for stitches that i needed...so now,it's going to take me longer to heal and i'll get a nasty scar...so yeah... my right hand is useless and it's my dominent hand...thankfully my instructors (so far) have been understanding. kindof hard to paint when cannot hold anything...my hand is wrapped like a mummy. hence the lack of caps....i have to shower with a bag taped to my wrist. :(

Monday, March 9, 2009

The actually depictions of the will o' wisp will be those blobs in the BG. Will o' wisps are lights that would leave travellers astray. Also known as witch or fairy lights, there were said to be held by mischievous fairies. Once getting a traveller totally lost or near the edge of a cliff, the fairy would snuff out their light, snicker and leave the traveller lost and alone.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

So, I go to prepare a portfolio for my big job interview on tuesday... Only to have my back-up hard drive with ALL of my recent work (minues Merrow, Melusine, Kelpie and Vireo arts, THANKFULLY!!) not work.. And I mean, not work.. As in, it won't spin, and therefore won't let me access my files... So, yah.. I thought I was screwed, but THANKFULLY I remember that most of my work is on as prints at dA... Just, I enabled downloads for those pieces and got them. They are in JPEG format, unfortunately, but atleast they are atleast 300dpi, if not 600dpi.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Okay, so I sliced off a chunk of thumb and finger at work yesterday.. Nice.. Miss Holly and I went and searched for the chunk, found it and threw it out. Nasty. So, I'm all bandaged up. You don't realise how much you use your non-dominant thumb until it hurts like hell..

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Not too fond of these next few sketches, but we'll see where they lead to. This thrusday is the first day that I get to meet the student I'm mentoring. That should be interesting. Hopefully I'll be able to lead in the right direction.

Bad luck continues.. Cats broke one of my few wine glasses, toilet over flowed... AFTER I peed (nice, I know), and now the power button on my desktop broke off, so I won't have a desktop for the next few weeks.. Thankfully, I have my laptop. Looking forward to next week, as my interview is approaching.

Here are the sketches. These are for my encyclopaedia as well.. I don't know, just not to fond of them at this stage.

Will O' The Wisp

Melusine

This is a portrait of my friend Ty (glitchritual.com)after he made fun of me for drawing something in 'chibi' style. He makes for an adorable 'chibi'.

Friday, February 13, 2009

I've basically had a week from hell... I treated myself to some salon time (MONEY!!) cause I has some extra cash, only to lose my cell phone promptly after that. Then my laptop stopped working due to a Vista issue (thanks MICROSOFT!!), so I removed EVERYTHING including Dell drivers, only to find that my dell driver CD was broken in half (WTF...?), finally got that fixed, only to get the stomach flu and miss a shift a work (there goes some money towards new cell phone...) Now today, another HP/Vista error with my scanner... The HP software could not recognize the scanner.. WTF.. So, finally got that fixed. One good thing, I have a job interview to be an art instructor for when I move back home. Wish me luck.

These two are for an encyclopaedia that I'm working on about Celtic folklore. Next one the list is Will o' the Wisp and Cait Sith.

About Me

The art of Ashley Cruikshank. Ash is a Canadian illustrator residing in the Greater Toronto Area. When not drawing, she enjoys hanging out with her two cats, Kali and Trixie and frustrating her boyfriend, graphic designer, Phil Roberto.